Tebaga Gap Editing in Progress ;-) [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Contrary to what is implied in much that's written, the German intelligence knew about the tank prior to Gazala. They may have underestimated its...
Personal Number: 15428 Rank: Brigadier Name: Reginald Herbert Ryrie STEWARD, CB, CBE, DSO*, MC, MiD** Unit: Royal Corps of Signals London...
Personal Number: 134607 Rank: Colonel Name: Dennis Reginald William THOMAS MBE, AMIEE, AFRAeS, MiD Unit: Middlesex Regiment ; Royal Corps of...
Hi Father was a Royal Artillery driver in North Africa, Italy and Greece with the 8th Army. As his preferred name suggests, he was a Scot from...
Personal Number: 158883 Rank: Major Name: William George McKenzie SINCLAIR, MBE, MiD Unit: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders London Gazette : 6...
Personal Number: 180247 Rank: Captain Name: Douglas John BEECH, MC*, MiD Unit: Essex Regiment London Gazette : 15 April 1941...
Hi, whilst going through gallantry citations for the closing stages of the Italian Campaign I found some recommendations made by the Deputy...
Sirte Also spelled Sirt, Surt, Sert or Syrt. Work in Progress ;-) [ATTACH]
Just registered and I am saying hello. My main interests lies with the Italian campaign, as my late father served with the Jewish fighting...
Attached are a couple of pages from my great-grandads wartime service record and my question relates to the entry dated 30-07-42 at the bottom of...
Personal Number: 8669 Rank: Major-General Name: John Frederick Boyce COMBE, CB, DSO*, MiD** Unit: 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) London...
Personal number: 14936 Rank: General Name: Sir Charles Frederick KEIGHTLEY, GCB, GBE, DSO, DL, MiD* Unit: 5 Inniskilling Dragoon Guards London...
Personal Number: 20246 Rank: Lieutenant-General Name: Sir Terence Sydney AIREY, KCMG, CB, CBE, MiD** Unit: Durham Light Infantry London Gazette...
Personal Number: 11880 Rank: Major-General Name: Cecil Albert HEYDEMAN, CB, MC, MiD Unit: Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) London Gazette : 20...
I have found a typed copy of a three page article on this subject, wrtten by a Captain J Macrae Maclennan, Observer with the Division. It first...
Award Mentioned in Despatches Lt-Col. Hugh Salisbury Kynaston Mainwaring, D.S.O. (30735) R.A., H.Q. 8th Army ESCAPES FROM CAMP 49 (FONTANELLATO)....
Can anyone decipher these service records for George Richardson. The local paper at the time reported he was MIA presumed died. The local...
My wife's grandfather, Colonel Leslie Gwynne -Royal Engineers, was the CRE of 8th Army Troops during the Italian Campaign. He has left us two...
Hello, I haven't asked for help before, just read all the threads and worked it out from that, thanks. But I am having trouble with my husband's...
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